Finding Hope

  (Bloodmoon Series)

  By: Briana Alisandra

  © 2021 Briana Alisandra. All rights reserved.

  Table of Contents

  Chapter 1: Hope

  Chapter 2: Hope

  Chapter 3: Hope

  Chapter 4: Hope

  Chapter 5: Hope

  Chapter 6: Hope

  Chapter 7: Wyatt

  Chapter 8: Hope

  Chapter 9: Wyatt

  Chapter 10: Hope

  Chapter 11: Hope

  Chapter 12: Hope

  Chapter 13: Hope

  Chapter 14: Knight

  Chapter 15: Hope

  Chapter 16: Hope

  Chapter 17: Hope

  Chapter 18: Christian

  Chapter 19: Hope

  Chapter 20: Wyatt

  Chapter 21: Hope

  Chapter 22: Wyatt

  Chapter 23: Knight

  Chapter 24: Hope

  Chapter 25: Kane

  Chapter 26: Hope

  Chapter 27: Hayden

  Chapter 28: Hope

  Chapter 29: Kane

  Chapter 30: Wyatt

  Chapter 31: Hope

  Chapter 32: Hope

  Chapter 33: Hope

  Chapter 34: Christian

  Chapter 35: Hope

  Chapter 1: Hope

  The moon shined bright above us. Teasing me with it’s fullness.

  Fuck you full moon.

  I leaned my head back on the seat rest and closed my eyes. It didn’t make any sense. Wyatt and I had sex. I should be a wolf right now, not sitting in the car with the twins.

  “I’m so bored,” Aria said from the backseat.

  This was the sixth time she said that. If the sighs and eyerolls coming from back there weren’t obvious enough for me to figure out she didn’t want to be here. “Sorry.”

  “Don’t apologize,” Lexie said.

  I looked back at her. She was glaring pointedly at her sister.

  But that didn’t stop Aria. Nothing ever stopped Aria Drake from speaking her mind. “If I would have known we were just going to be sitting in the car I wouldn’t have come.”

  “It’s not like you had anything better to do,” her sister quipped.

  “Thank you so much for the reminder Alexandra. I should have convinced Mom and Dad to let me go to Lancaster with Tegan for the summer.”

  “You really think Lancaster, Pennsylvania is going to be that fun? Even Tegan didn’t want to go. If it weren’t for the fact that she has family there she wouldn’t be there.”

  “At least I would be with someone fun.” She looked out the window with another sigh and crossed her arms across her chest. “Is this how we’re going to spend the entire summer? Trying to find a woman that doesn’t want to be found?”

  “Aria, stop being such a bitch.”

  Aria’s head whipped around and she looked at Lexie in shock. “Hey.”

  Lexie didn’t apologize. She had a short fuse these days. Losing the girl you’re secretly in love with will do that to a person. She lost Jade before she even really had her. It was completely unfair. Unfair to Lexie and unfair to me, but mostly unfair to Jade.

  Jade didn’t know anything about this world. And yet she fell victim to it. We should have told her. She never would have been out there unprotected if we had. We should have protected her from the dangers in Salem Point.

  “I’m going to excuse that comment, because I know you’re upset. But please, try to remember which sister is the mean one.”

  It was hard to differentiate that these days.

  Knight opened the driver side door and slid into the car. “I didn’t see anyone and there’s no lights on inside.”

  “She’s probably out,” Aria said. “She is a vampire after all. The night is their playtime.”

  My stomach turned. We should have left Aria behind. Even Hayden would have been a better person to tag along. At least she wasn’t as vocal with her bitchy remarks anymore.

  We weren’t super close, but we weren’t enemies anymore. I wouldn’t call us friendly, but she did try to refrain from being a bitch to me.

  Well, she did still have some bitchy moments, but that was just Hayden being Hayden. No amount of blood shared between us could change that.

  Hayden couldn’t join us anyway. The full moon. She was out in the woods in wolf form. She was a normal wolf. I still had no idea what the hell was wrong with me.

  She might not want to though. I was trying to find the woman her father had an affair with.

  I opened the car door and started walking towards the abandoned house. I heard Knight practically jump from the car to follow me. The others followed after him.

  “Hope, what are you doing?”

  “I’m checking inside Knight.”

  “Are you insane?”

  “A little.”

  “Okay, well I’m not insane enough to let you do this.”

  “Knight, I need to find my mother.”

  “Yeah, I know. No matter the cost.”

  I turned around to look at him. Even in the darkness I could tell how concerned he was. He looked beautiful in the moonlight. Almost blue.

  “She’s the only one that might have answers to what’s wrong with me. And she’s my mom. I need to know if that’s still true.”

  I had no idea what I would be encountering. The loving mother I remembered, or a cold hearted vampire that didn’t give a damn about me anymore. Honestly, I didn’t know which was worse. If she did still love me, why didn’t she come for me sooner? Why did she let me suffer all those years?

  I had so many questions and I needed my answers.

  He nodded his head and squeezed my hand gently. He knew how I felt. He lost his mom too and if there was a chance he could get her back, he would take the same risks I was.

  We walked the short distance to the dark house. I listened to see if I could hear anything inside. My hearing was better after I lost my virginity to Wyatt. I was stronger and I even ran faster. Not as fast as a vampire, but fast.

  The only thing that didn’t happen was I still hadn’t shifted into a werewolf.

  I turned the knob and luckily it was open so we didn’t have to use our powers to unlock the door.

  I walked in first, Knight practically on top of me.

  The lights turned on. Aria had flipped the switch. She made a face. “This place is disgusting.”

  It was just dusty. She was completely over reacting. She had a flare for the dramatics.

  I listened into the darkness of the house. I didn’t hear anything, but I could sense that there was a presence in the house. Hopefully it was my mother and not some ghost.

  Were ghosts real?

  Who was I kidding? Why wouldn’t they be? Ghosts would be the least surprising entities giving what I was.

  I walked further into the house. Knight followed me, but the twins went their own way.

  “Be careful, Hope.”

  “I know, Knight.” I smiled back at him. He was so sweet. I felt terrible for constantly dragging him into all this. His life was so much more simple before I came waltzing into it. Everyones was.

  There was a light on in the room at the end of the hall. We walked down the hall. I paused outside of the door. Someone was definitely in there.

  I pushed the door open and looked inside.

  I rolled my eyes at who I saw.

  “Wyatt, what the hell are you doing here?”

  He held up a finger and told me to shh. “I’m almost done with this page. One second.”

  He was sitting at a desk with his shoes up on the desk and a book in one hand.

  I looked at Knight in annoyance. He looked annoyed too, but he mustered up a smile for me.

  “Wyatt!”

  “And finished. That’s a good book. I might take it with me.” He stood up and smiled. “Hello, Knight.”

  “Wyatt.”

  “What the hell are you doing here?” I asked.

  “Well, someone’s in a mood.”

  “Wyatt!”

  “We missed her.” He sighed, an apologetic look washing over his face. “I’m sorry, Hope. She was here, but she’s gone. She must have known we were coming.”

  My heart sank in my chest. She was here. She was here and I missed her. This got harder every time it happened. I kept missing her, and each time it made me feel more and more disappointed.

  I’m never going to find her.

  Wyatt appeared in front of me.

  Knight glared at him. “I hate when he does that.”

  “Now, the better question is what the hell do you think you’re doing here?”

  I glared up at him. “I’m not going home, Wyatt. She’s close. We can keep trying to find her.”

  “I can keep trying to find her. You’re going home.”

  “No, I’m not.”

  “Yes you are. Christian is here and we will drag you home kicking and screaming.”

  “You can’t make me go home.”

  “I can do whatever I want.” He smirked down at me. “I’m still evil, remember?”

  “Oh, yeah, so evil.” I rolled my eyes and walked back out of the room. I stomped down the hall where I found Christian and the twins.

  “Christian, I’m not going back.”

  “Yes, she is,” Wyatt sang from down the hall.

  “Shut up Wyatt! Christian, I have to find my mom.

”

  He came closer to me. “Hope, we will find her. You have to trust us.”

  I did trust them, which wasn’t easy for me. But I couldn’t sit at home doing nothing anymore. Especially with summer break starting. I literally had nothing to do but to stare at the walls.

  “We have to get home,” Lexie said. “Your aunt called our mom and she’s pissed.”

  “Then let’s not go home,” Aria said.

  Lexie didn’t reply. She just walked out of the house.

  “She’s talkative,” Wyatt said.

  “You’re an ass,” Knight said. He came over to me. “Hope, we will find her. But we missed her this time and there’s no way we’ll catch up to her. You know how good she is at covering her tracks.”

  “Fine. Let’s just go.”

  Yeah, Mom was great at covering her tracks. It just sucked that it was me she was running from.

  * * *

  As soon as we got to my house I went into the house and slammed the door behind me.

  We had dropped the twins off on the way to my house. Knight drove, but I knew Wyatt was following us to make sure he actually took me home.

  It was infuriating. Like I was his child and he had power over me. No man was ever going to have power over me. No person was ever going to have power over me again. Definitely not Wyatt.

  As I got to the steps, the front door opened. Wyatt came through and closed it behind him. “We’re not done talking.”

  “I’m done listening.”

  I went to walk up the steps, but he appeared in front of me. “Hope, you’re supposed to stay put.”

  “I said I was done listening, Wyatt. Move.”

  He sneered down at me. “Why are you being so stubborn?”

  “I’m not being stubborn, Wyatt. I’m being me. This is my life and you don’t get to dictate what I do. Now move.”

  “No.”

  “Wyatt!”

  I walked away from him towards the kitchen. He was pissing me off. I needed to get away from him. Bad things happened when I got pissed off. I had a lot more control over my powers, but they were still destructive when my emotions were heightened.

  “Hope, you’re supposed to stay in the house where you’re safe.”

  “I’m not staying home anymore. This is my life. She’s my mother and I’m going to find her.”

  Wyatt followed after me. “And if you get killed in the process? You’re being stupid Hope.”

  I turned around and put my hand out in front of me with rage. Wyatt went flying back and slammed against the wall. He fell to the floor with a loud thump.

  “Don’t call me stupid.”

  He looked surprised. He shook his head. “Someone’s been working out.”

  “Nothing else to do around here.”

  He stood up and glared at me seriously. “Being better with your powers doesn’t make you invincible, Hope.”

  Wyatt came closer to me. I knew why he was doing this. He wasn’t trying to be a dick. He did have dickish qualities, but not with me. Not anymore.

  He was doing this because he cared about me. More than he knew how to handle.

  It wasn’t one sided. Especially after the nights we shared together. I never felt more vulnerable than I did with Wyatt. And yet somehow I knew I could trust him every second we were together.

  “I have to find my mother Wyatt. I need answers.”

  “I want you to have those answers, Hope. But I want you alive when you get those answers. I need you to start caring about your own life.”

  I scoffed at his words. “I do care about my own life.”

  “Really? Because tonight Kane could have found you. He could have taken you and you would have been screwed. Good old Knight can’t save you and I doubt the twins could do much against an ancient vampire. You would have been screwed and it would have been your fault.”

  I glared up at him in anger.

  He glared down at me.

  I was so angry with him, but flashes of his perfect naked body pressed up against mine kept coming to my mind.

  I reached out and wrapped my hands around his neck, tugging on his hair as our lips crashed together.

  He ran us back into the wall and pressed into me, his tongue gliding between my lips. Wyatt’s hands roamed my body and rested at my waist. He held me in place and kissed down my neck.

  He suddenly pulled away and looked into my eyes. We were both breathing heavily. He moved the hair out of my eyes and looked at me with immense passion. “I need you to be careful. I need you to care about your life as much as I do. I need you to stay alive, Hope.”

  I was about to respond, but he took off in a flash. Leaving me leaning against the wall.

  Gemma opened the front door. I sighed.

  Wyatt must have heard her coming. I was too focused on his lips to listen into my surroundings. I blushed at the thought of what Gemma would have been walking into if we had continued.

  Gemma looked at me with her disappointed look. “Again, Hope? We talked about this.”

  I snarled. Wyatt texted her. Of course.

  I folded my arms across my chest and held back rolling my eyes. Here came another lecture.

  This was all Wyatt’s fault.

  He was lucky I liked him so much or I would never speak to him again.

  “I don’t need another lecture.”

  “Apparently you do. What is it going to take for you to realize that this search of yours is dangerous?”

  “I don’t know. What’s it going to take for you to realize I’m not giving up trying to find Mom?”

  “I’m trying to find her. Wyatt and Christian are trying to find her. Even Elizabeth is trying to help. Your job is to be a kid, Hope.”

  “I’m not a kid!” I took a shaky breath. “I’m not a kid, Gemma. So please, stop treating me like one.”

  I stomped up the steps before I said something I was going to regret.

  Or before I sent Gemma flying too.

  Chapter 2: Hope

  I was reading one of my family’s grimoires. This one had been through a lot. It was practically falling apart. We should really scan them onto a computer to save copies in case something happened to them.

  It was already one in the morning. Gemma went to bed an hour ago. She came in to say goodnight. We didn’t talk about tonight though. I think she was getting tired of having the same conversation with me.

  I hated stressing my aunt out, but I couldn’t help who I was. Sitting at home and letting everyone fight my battles for me just wasn’t me. I wasn’t trying to put myself in danger, but I couldn’t put the people I cared about in danger and stand by.

  My phone lit up on my nightstand. I grabbed it and when I looked at the screen I furrowed my eyebrows. I had a text from Hayden. We spoke when we crossed paths, but she didn’t usually text me.

  Hayden: Let me in. I’m outside

  I got up from bed and rushed downstairs. Something had to be wrong for Hayden to be at my house.

  I opened the front door and found Hayden leaning against the doorframe. “What’s wrong?”

  “Nothing.” She raised an eyebrow. “I need a place to crash. My mom is pissing me off.”

  “I um…”

  We stood in an awkward silence.

  “Are you going to invite me in or what?”

  “Right. Sorry. Yeah, come in.”

  Hayden walked inside. I closed the door behind her and turned around to face her.

  “You got anything good to eat? I’ve got the munchies. I smoked a joint with Dean earlier.”

  “Dean?”

  “Oh, forgot you don’t know anyone from the pack. We usually smoke together before a full moon. Food?”

  “We’ve got some chips?”

  “That’ll do.”

  I followed her to the kitchen. She opened the fridge and grabbed a water bottle.

  I got the chips from the pantry and handed them to her. “Hope jalapeno are okay?”

  “Perfect.”

  I stood by the counter and watched Hayden while she ate her chips. Hands down out of all the crazy things that happened to me this year, Hayden standing in my kitchen eating chips was the craziest.

  “You’re staring,” she said in between crunches.

  “You’re standing in my kitchen eating chips.”

  She nodded her head. “Yeah.”

  “Why?”

  “Chips are good.”

  “No, Hayden. Why are you here?”

 

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